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Sunday, 4 March 2012

This will be the last ikebana arrangement in this weeks fruit and vegetable series. Slightly curved, elegant lines in black and green, and a mass of yellow potatoes. The materials are fixed with wire.

As my sensei pointed out it would have been great if the potatoes had grown sprouts. That would really have added the fun and interesting extra touch to the arrangement. As it is, it's quite close to being a traditional morimono arrangement and maybe not so much as a sculptural freestyle. Either way, I like the elegant black and green emphasized by this tall Japanese vase. The fingerling potatoes are nice this way too.

Who says you can't play with your food? I hope you have enjoyed the results of my excursions in the grocery store. That's all for now.

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Ikebana is the Japanese art of arranging flowers. More than being decorative, ikebana is thought of as a path of life or a kind of meditation.
I'm studying Ikebana with the Sogetsu school, and currently I hold a teachers certificate of Sankyu Shihan (teacher, third grade). My flower name is Senju 泉樹.
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"Ikebana is the art of space - the space between branches, the space between flowers and leaves and the space between masses. In other words, the space between the branches and flowers comes alive. This space is a plentiful void projecting tension and power."

Sofu Teshigahara

"I regard myself as a creator of shape who uses mainly flowers as his metier, rather than purely as an arranger of flowers."

Sofu Teshigahara

“Ikebana is a form of sculpture that exists only within a limited time span, transforms from moment to moment, then perishes.”